OAS: A HISTORY OF CRIMES AGAINST LATIN AMERICA

247, with Granma, by Oscar Sánchez Serra – At the end of 1889, the US government of Benjamin Harrison convened the First Pan American Conference, which was the starting point for “Pan-Americanism”, which was already expressed as the economic and political domain of America under the supposed “continental unity”. It was the updating of James Monroe’s doctrine of December 2, 1823, at a time when American capitalism reached its imperialist phase.

José Martí, an exceptional testimony of the emergence of this imperialist monster, in connection with that conference and from the bowels of the beast, in his capacity as Uruguayan consul, expressed in the Argentine newspaper La Nación that “there has never been in America, from Independence until now, require more vigilance, nor require a clearer and more detailed examination, than the invitation which the powerful United States, full of unsaleable products determined to extend its dominions in America, make to the American nations of less power, linked by free trade with the peoples of Europe, to adjust an alliance against Europe, and to conclude agreements with the rest of the world.of Spanish tyranny Spain was able to save itself, and now, after seeing with and invitation factors, it is urgent to say,because it is the truth, that it came to Spanish America to declare its second independence. “

His keen intuition, his political genius and keen thinker, gave him reason. Between 1889 and 1945, during eight similar conferences, three consultation meetings and several conferences on special subjects, the advance of the economic, political and military penetration of the United States in Latin America was established, until the birth of the OAS in 1948, in the American International Conference of Bogotá, between March 30 and May 2, during which the Colombian liberal leader Jorge Elias Gaitn, of great popular rootedness, was assassinated. That fact motivated a great insurrection known as the Bogotazo, brutally repressed, and that served to manipulate the course and the results of the Conference, when the United States promoted as a threat to democracy the height of the Soviet Union and the communism, to which they accused for the deaths occurred in this uprising.

The history is there, no one can change it, the Organization of American States was born to become the ideal legal instrument to the American domination in the continent. The Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has just demonstrated this in his speech last Monday (4), at the 48th session of the General Assembly, that Raul Roa (Havana, 1907 – 1982), the Chancellor of Dignity, called ministry of the empire colonies. With his intervention speech, the head of US diplomacy gave the orders to isolate Venezuela, indicating to the region that it breaks relations with the legitimate government of Nicolás Maduro, as it did with Cuba in the early 60’s of last century, and demanding “democratic reforms” in Nicaragua, blaming the government of Daniel Ortega for the deaths caused by the violent acts in that country,

Pompeo, referring to Cuba on Monday, said that, “as democratic societies, we must support the youth of Cuba and other parts of the hemisphere in their hopes for democratic change.” But the same Cuba that emerged from the OAS, and with it all the peoples of America, with the protagonism of its young people, stood up as Martí did in 1889. “Why go as allies, in the best of youth, in the battle that is the United States preparing to wage war with the rest of the world? “

The diplomatic rhetoric of the OAS, concerning the postulates on the independence and sovereignty of nations and the rights of man and people, among which the principle of the non-intervention of one State in the internal affairs of others was based, is a dead letter in the face of a massive bloody expedient. The United States needs the living OAS to influence and divide the region and to restrain the consecration of its unique, inevitable and true historical destiny: the Martí and Bolivarian integration of its peoples.

Synthesis of the OAS trajectory

– In 1954, Guatemala was invaded by mercenary troops organized by the CIA, which overthrew the government of Jacobo Arbenz. The OAS has previously approved a regional collective intervention resolution in clear violation of its Charter and the UN Charter.

– The OAS did not make a single statement about the aggression against Cuba in Playa Girón in 1961.

– April 1965: Yankee marines were disembarked in Santo Domingo to prevent the victory of the constitutionalist popular movement on the militaristic reaction. It was the first collective intervention in a country in the area, with the OAS brand.

– The OAS was silent on the death of Salvador Allende, the murder and enforced disappearance of tens of thousands of South Americans during the grisly Operation Condor.

– The OAS did not promote peace in Central America during the 1980s, in a conflict that cost about 100,000 lives.

– The OAS has not backed investigations into the suspicion of General Torrijos’ death in Panama.

– In March of 1982, the British intervention that began the War of the Malvinas, the first aggression of an extracontinental power to a country of the Inter-American System, which, according to the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance -ARAR (another breeding of domination, supposed criterion of solidarity on the continent wielded by Washington), should call for continental solidarity with the aggressor. And … the United States politically and militarily supported Britain and imposed economic sanctions against Argentina.

– October 1983: A military coup overthrew the Grenada prime minister, Maurice Bishop, who was assassinated. The United States also sent an invasion force of 1,900 Marines to Grenada. The principle of non-intervention was no longer valid.

– The OAS was not even moved by the invasion of Panama in 1989.

– The 1992 Inter-American Democratic Charter raised the level of the treaty to impose unipolarism on the region, that is, the OAS did not change its face, so much so that in the face of the military coup in Haiti that President Jean Bertrand Aristides deposed in February 2004, exhibited the same level of disability and putrefaction.

– The OAS supported the coup d’état in Venezuela in April 2002, which sought to take power from commander Hugo Chavez.

– The OAS contemplated the coup against the government of Manuel Zelaya in Honduras in 2009.

– In 2010, the OAS turned a blind eye to another coup attempt in Ecuador during Rafael Correa’s administration.

– The OAS and its Secretary General, Luis Almagro, today sponsor US policies against Venezuela and Cuba.

Floral tributes were placed at the Bogota shopping center where three women were killed and nine wounded after an explosive device detonated in a restroom as Colombians flocked to buy gifts ahead of Sunday’s Father’s Day celebrations.

The normally busy Andino mall was eerily quiet as people placed flowers on the main floor of the upscale retail center, which on Saturday afternoon was the scene of chaos and terror as the device exploded inside a toilet stall on the second floor.

President Juan Manuel Santos denounced the “cowardly terrorist act” and offered a reward of 100 million pesos ($34,258) for information leading to capture of those responsible.

He said investigators are working on three hypotheses but declined to provide any information while the probe is underway. No one has claimed responsibility for the deadly act.

“The objective of terrorism is to sow fear, and our response to that is to show unity and bravery to confront it,” said Santos following a security council meeting with members of the armed forces and ministers.

“Colombians must unite and show solidarity to confront such cowardly acts.”

He asked residents to be vigilant but not let the attack cower them.

Police said the device was placed behind a toilet bowl. Half a dozen forensic police dressed in white overalls were at the scene on the second floor as scores of uniformed officials and intelligence personnel scanned the mall.

One of the victims was a 23-year old French woman identified as Julie Huynh who had been volunteering in a poor area of the city. Colombians Ana Maria Gutierrez, 27, and Lady Paola Jaimes Ovalle, 31, also died. A fourth woman remains in intensive care.

“It was incredible, I heard the explosion, but I never imagined that it was an attack, that it could be so horrible, I can’t sleep,” said Maria Vasquez, 56, as she looked toward the door of the restroom on Sunday.

“This is unforgivable. Children could have been hurt as they go to the toilet with their mothers,” said Pedro Alvarez, as he placed a paper flower at the information desk.

Many stores remained shut as people milled around in silence.

Photographs on social media late on Saturday showed a woman slumped against the wall in a pool of blood and what appeared to be a shard of metal piercing her back. In front of her was another woman with her leg torn apart above the knee.

Another image showed the destroyed toilet cubicle with a blood-splattered handrail and debris strewn over the floor.

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Security has improved in Bogota over the past decade as police and military increased surveillance and put more armed officials on the streets. At one time all bags were checked at the entrance to shopping malls, but that has been vastly scaled back in recent years.

Bomb dogs still check cars at parking facilities in the capital.

A peace accord signed last year with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country’s biggest guerrilla group, raised confidence bomb attacks might cease.

The country’s second-largest insurgent group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), in February detonated a bomb in Bogota, injuring dozens of police.

The Marxist ELN, currently negotiating a peace accord with the government, on Saturday condemned the attack against civilians.

Authorities have said there have been threats of attacks in Bogota by the so-called Gulf Clan, a group of former right-wing paramilitary fighters who traffic drugs.

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